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"In the New Year" holds a special place with me because the one and only time I've seen it live was the last time the Walkmen played the Fonda, on Inauguration Day last year. And it was just a really really happy day, a great vibe in the air.

I also really like Angela Surf City. The songs where Hamilton reaches for the extreme heights of his vocal range are the ones I really dig. And, I didn't really get into them until You & Me.

But bleep, buddy - I really wanna meet up for a drink with you two tomorrow. I'll be the only really tall guy wearing a brown shirt and gray shorts.

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Originally Posted by bleep

is it true that they opened their Portland set w/ "Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone"? i read that bit in a review but don't quite believe it because, per an interview, Matt has apparently forgotten to play the beat to that song. that's the one oldie i'm dying to hear and i don't wanna get my hopes up if it ain't true.

I cannot confirm or deny. I recall the first song was not a song I knew well, nor was it very upbeat. You'd have to be an extreme asshole to make up something in a live review though, so I'm going to guess yes. I apologize, I've only been a Walkmen fan for about 18 months, and have barely dove head first into their older material.

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sorry love, i wasn't feeling the Japandroids. loud yes, but mostly dull i thought. the stacks of amps on stage was humorous though, as was the fan blowing the guitarist's hair and his uber skinny jeans!

Chris and Rey, nice meeting you boys. Rey, hope your lengthy drive home was a safe one, and thanks for the drink!

know ID ya, they did open w/ "Everyone..."! i was grinning from ear to ear.

Setlist:
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
Blue As Your Blood
In the New Year
Angela Surf City
Victory
We've Been Had
All My Great Designs
Four Provinces
Woe is Me
Juveniles
While I Shovel the Snow
On the Water
Canadian Girl
All Hands and the Cook

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nice to meet you folk, too. had to return the favor on the drink bleep. by the way, if you buy the new album on cd at amoeba it comes with a free 7" with two more bonus songs ("weight on my shoulders" and "good days carry on"). both are excellent.

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by the way, if you buy the new album on cd at amoeba it comes with a free 7" with two more bonus songs ("weight on my shoulders" and "good days carry on"). both are excellent.

these two almost never saw the light of day! it was only after being informed by family members that fans were most upset about these two songs not making onto Lisbon that the boys finally decided to release 'em on a 7". i personally think these two cuts are stupendous. funny how they've chosen to distribute 'em in such a limited fashion.

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thanks. you're a peach.

I wish I had taken more video, but it was kind of awkward already. they just kind of ran through a handful of songs really quick, so I didn't want to just have my camera out the whole time. I mean, they could clearly see me. it was basically 1 and a half rows of people on the opposite wall from the band. maybe 30 people total? so yeah, I felt weird already taking what I took. pretty sweet though!

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A little heads up, the Walkmen will be on Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley tomorrow, Monday, around 11:15am PT on 89.9 KCRW. If you don't live in the LA area, you can listen live on kcrw.com.

AVC: You guys have talked in the past about doing a “straight calypso” record. Do you feel that you’ve reached a place yet where you could finally do something like that—or maybe a straight R&B record—and nobody would think twice about it?
HL: [Laughs.] People might bat an eye if we put out an R&B record. Actually, we were in L.A. recently playing at a party, and this is the greatest compliment I’ve ever gotten: We were playing and this girl came up to me afterwards and said, “I really like your voice,” and I said, “Well, thanks a lot.” And her friends came over and she said, “Me and my friends, we just really love the way you sing. We had this band for a long time. We’re called En Vogue.” And I was like, “What did you say?” Three of the girls from En Vogue were at the party. It was really, really cool. Maybe we should break into the R&B world. I’m gonna give them a call.

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Three albums into my Walkmen journey. To be honest, none of them have really stuck with me, though all have been enjoyable. I think A Hundred Miles Off is my favorite so far. They are very good at atmosphere. Nothing has floored me so far though.

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i love the shit out of their first two albums. those two are the genesis of the "Walkmen sound", a sound unique to 'em and one that few bands later down the line have struggled to imitate. Everyone has its faults (it is convoluted for one), but it is also an ambitious debut. i adore how its soundscape shifts from quiet to loud, boozy warmth to wintry cold; there’s a vintage feel and almost whimsical glow 'bout it. Bows is them at their most urgent, heavy and passionate…that's where their anthems are housed. 138th Street, That's the Punchline, We've Been Had, The Rat--these and a few more songs from their first two records make up close to one-half of the Walkmen's "greatest hits".

A Hundred Miles Off is my least favorite record of theirs. it has some gems, but it was mostly them being content w/ how they have sounded like up to that point and just treading water really.

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Also, not to be "that guy" (not an audiophile I swear - axe anybody) but the vinyl version crushes the mp3s (even the mp3s that come with the vinyl) like a grape.

So ace.

"All of you coachella 'regulars' have nasty boy pussies and itchy dick4's on your asses.
Why don't you all make like a tree and get chopped down and die. You all have been dreadfully mean to me.
I Hate you. All of you. None of you will ever get to see a womans chest meat or finger blast hott cougies like me.
Fuck you all. Consider this my resignation.
Fair the well, you elitest scumbags."— Faxman75, who has clearly had enough

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Bumping this because everyone should like what I like when I tell them to.

"All of you coachella 'regulars' have nasty boy pussies and itchy dick4's on your asses.
Why don't you all make like a tree and get chopped down and die. You all have been dreadfully mean to me.
I Hate you. All of you. None of you will ever get to see a womans chest meat or finger blast hott cougies like me.
Fuck you all. Consider this my resignation.
Fair the well, you elitest scumbags."— Faxman75, who has clearly had enough